The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Edited by Robert E. Goodin

Description

Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. Sixty-seven of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and provide penetrating introductions to exciting new fields of study. Following in the footsteps of the New Handbook of Political Science edited by Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann a decade before, this Oxford Handbook ofPolitical Science will become an indispensable guide to the scope and methods of political science as a whole. It will serve as the reference book of record for political scientists and for those following their work for years to come.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Edited by Robert E. Goodin

Table of Contents

About the Contributors Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION1. The State of the Discipline, the Discipline of the State, Robert E. Goodin PART II: POLITICAL THEORY2. Overview of Political Theory, John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips 3. Normative Methodology, Russell Hardin 4. Theory in History: Problems with Context and Narrative, J.G.A. Pocock 5. Justice After Rawls, Richard J. Arneson 6. Modernity and its Critics, Jane Bennett PART III: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS 7. Old Institutionalisms: An Overview, R.A.W. Rhodes8. Elaborating the "New Institutionalism", James G. March and Johan P. Olsen 9. Comparative Constitutions, Josep M. Colomer 10. Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures, John H. Aldrich11. The Regulatory State?, John Braithwaite PART IV: LAW & POLITICS12. Overview of Law and Politics: The Study of Law and Politics, Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A. Caldeira 13. The Judicialization of Politics, Ran Hirschl 14. Judicial Behavior, Jeffrey A. Segal 15. Law and Society, Lynn Mather 16. Feminist Theory and the Law, Judith A. BaerPART V: POLITICAL BEHAVIORS17. Overview of Political Behavior: Political Behavior and Citizen Politics, Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann 18. Political Psychology and Choice, Diana C. Mutz19. Votes and Parties, Anne Wren and Kenneth M. Mcelwain 20. Comparative Legislative Behavior, Eric M. Uslaner and Thomas Zittel 21. Political Intolerance in the Context of Democratic Theory, James L. GibsonPART VI: CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS 22. Overview of Contextual Political Analysis: It Depends, Charles Tilly and Robert E. Goodin 23. Political Ontology, Colin Hay 24. The Logic of Appropriateness, James G. March and Johan P. Olsen 25. Why and How Place Matters, Göran Therborn 26. Why and How History Matters, Charles Tilly PART VII: COMPARATIVE POLITICS27. Overview of Comparative Politics, Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes 28. War, Trade and State Formation, Hendrik Spruyt 29. What Causes Democratization?, Barbara Geddes 30. Party Systems, Herbert Kitschelt 31. Political Clientelism, Susan C. StokesPART VIII: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS32. Overview of International Relations: Between Utopia and Reality, Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal33. The New Liberalism, Andrew Moravcsik 34. The English School, Tim Dunne 35. From International Relations to Global Society, Michael Barnett and Kathryn Sikkink 36. Big Questions in the Study of World Politics, Robert O. Keohane37. Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations, Steve Smith PART IX: POLITICAL ECONOMY38. Overview of Political Economy: The Reach of Political Economy, Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman 39. Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory, David Austen-Smith 40. Capitalism and Democracy, Torben Iversen 41. Politics, Delegation and Bureaucracy, John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan 42. The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action, Samuel Bowles and Herbert GintisPART X: PUBLIC POLICY43. Overview of Public Policy: The Public and Its Policies, Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran and Martin Rein44. Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling, Davis B. Bobrow 45. Policy Dynamics, Eugene Bardach 46. Reframing Problematic Policies, Martin Rein 47. Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again, Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor PART XI: POLITICAL METHODOLOGY48. Overview of Political Methodology: Post-behavioral Movements and Trends, Henry E. Brady, David Collier and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier 49. Causation and Explanation in Social Science, Henry E. Brady 50. Field Experiments and Natural Experiments, Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green51. The Case Study: What It Is and What It Does, John Gerring 52. Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, David D. Laitin and James D. Fearon APPENDIX: Tables of Contents of the Other Ten Oxford Handbooks of Political Science Index

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Edited by Robert E. Goodin

Author Information

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory (eg. Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003), empirical welfare-state studies (eg. The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism; Discretionary Time) and theoretical reflections on public policy (eg. Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility; What's Wrong with Terrorism? ).

Contributors:

Richard J. Arneson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.David Austen-Smith is Earl Dean Howard Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University.Judith A. Baer is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University.Eugene Bardach is Professor of Public Policy in the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Michael Barnett is the Harold Stassen Chair of International Affairs at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.Davis B. Bobrow is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.Carles Boix is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program of the Santa Fe Institute and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena .Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Program in Statistics Methodology at Ohio State University.Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsche Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy, and Director of the Survey Research Center, UC DATA, and California Census Research Center, University of California, Berkeley.John Braithwaite is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in RetNet, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.Gregory A Caldera is Distinguished University Professor and Chaired Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University.David Collier is Robson Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science.Josep M. Colomer is Research Professor in Political Science in the Higher Council of Scientific Research, Barcelona.Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.John Dryzek is Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.Tim Dunne is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre of Advanced International Studies at the University of Exeter. James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.Alan S. Gerber is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics, Yale University.John Gerring is Professor of Political Science at Boston University.James L. Gibson is Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University, St. Louis.Herbert Gintis is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University.Russell Hardin is Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Political Science, New York University.Colin Hay is Professor of Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield.Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. Bonnie Honig is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.John D. Huber is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.Daniel Kelemen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. Herbert Kitschelt is George V. Allen Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Duke University.Rudolf Klein was formerly Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath.Hans-Dieter Klingemann is Emeritus Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, where he was Director of the Research Unit for Institutions and Social Change. David D. Laitin is James T. Watkins IV and Elsie V. Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford UniversityJames G. March is Professor of Education and Emeritus Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management, of Political Science and of Sociology, Stanford University.Theodore R. Marmor is Professor of Public Policy and Management and Professor of Political Science, Yale University.Lynn Mather is Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Kenneth Mori McElwain is a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies, Stanford University. Michael Moran is W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government, University of Manchester.Andrew Moravscik is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton UniversityDiana C. Mutz is Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Politica Science and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at The Annenberg Public Policy Center.Johan P. Olsen is Professor Emeritus at ARENA, University of Oslo.Anne Phillips is Professor of Gender Theory in the Department of Government and Gender Institute, London School of EconomicsJ.G.A. Pocock is Henry C. Black Professor Emeritus of History, Johns Hopkins University. Martin Rein is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Christian Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.R.A.W. Rhodes is Professor of Political Science at University of Tasmania and at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.Jeffrey A. Segal is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Charles R Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor and McKnight Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.Steve Smith is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter.Duncan Snidal is Associate Professor in the Harris School, the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science,Northwestern University.Susan C. Stokes is John S. Saden Professor of Political Science, Yale University.Göran Therborn is a Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala.Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.Eric M. Uslaner is Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland.Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University.Donald A. Wittman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Anne Wren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.Thomas Zittel is Project Director, European Political Systems and their Integration at the University of Mannheim.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Edited by Robert E. Goodin

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"A concise and solid introduction to political science and its ten sub-disciplines. The assembly of scholars from leading US, European, and Australian universities and research centers provides the reader with diverse perspectives and awareness of current scholarship. Entries are heavily cited and provide a concise roadmap of key scholars, theories, and current developments within each area...Highly recommended."--CHOICE

"Robert Goodin has put together a superb volume: truly a collection of the very best from the already outstanding chapters in the original ten volumes. The authors--the most prominent and authoritative experts from all over the world--provide not only a comprehensive and systematic assessment of what political science has already accomplished but also a guide to where the discipline should be heading in the future. Political scientists in all fields will welcome this immensely valuable effort."--Arend Lijphart, Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California-San Diego

"Anyone who wants to know the state of the art in political science and where the discipline is headed, but only consult one volume, need go no further than these authoritative essays by first rate contributors. "--Carole Pateman, Research Professor, School of European Studies, Cardiff University